Illustration: In a Japanese property sales office, an ordinary model of a tiny, aging apartment building sits at the center of a crowded table. Eager investors reach around one another to exchange its ownership folder for progressively larger stacks of bundled banknotes.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

バブル

baburu

economic bubble

Example sentences

  1. バブルのときにあの土地とちを売うっておけば大損おおそんしなかったのに。

    If only I’d sold that property during the economic bubble, I wouldn’t have suffered such a big loss.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 昭和末期しょうわまっきから続つづいたバブル景気けいきが崩壊ほうかいした。

    The bubble economy having continued from around the end of the Showa period collapsed.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. だが、バブル崩壊ほうかいにより一部いちぶの施設以外しせついがいは、不振ふしんが続つづいている。

    Due to the collapse of the bubble economy, most of these facilities are suffering from poor business results.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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